Re: Emacs users a dying breed?

[Jeremiah Dodds]

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> rusi <rustompmody <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> Do you think it may be good to trifurcate your 'question-mark' into
>> these 3?
>> 1. Revitalizing the emacs user base
>> 2. Revitalizing the developer base
>> 3. In the light of the huge changes in technology and 'demographic
>> profile' of computers and their usage from 1980s to now, rethinking
>> the priorities/direction of emacs
>> 
>> 
>
> There were discussions about this in the past. Apparently, the emacs
> developers consider attracting more users/developers less of a priority
> than keeping emacs as it is, that is they are not willing to overhaul 
> emacs just to attract users who are used to modern IDEs.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/126892

I think it's more like "attracting more users is less of a priority than
appealing to what others are used to", there's plenty of improvement and
development of Emacs going on.